James Austen Laird
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James Austen Laird LRIBA (22 September 1878 – 14 February 1950) was an architect based in Glasgow.[1]
He was born in Glasgow, the son of John Laird (1850-1947) and Martha Barr (1851-1933) on 7 September 1904 he married Agnes Risk Thomson (1881 - 1914) and they had four children:
- John McClelland Laird (1905–1988)
- Mary Risk Laird (1907–1961)
- Muriel Martha Barr Laird (1909–1990)
- Agnes Austen Laird (1912–2007)
In 1919 he married Janet Hamilton (Nettie) Thomson (1877–1944), older sister of his deceased wife. He died on 14 February 1950 in Croydon and left an estate valued at £35,486[2] (equivalent to £1,535,800 in 2023).[3]
